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Basix Headquarters office

Axelrod Architects

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Client
Basix
Floor area
230.00 ㎡
Completion
2018

The project was designed for a company that imports and distributes quality raw materials for the food industry.
The design incorporates a major element – a three-dimensional striped glass – in order to transform a narrow and medium sized space into a specious, subtle and variable space.
The space has been divided by fixed and moving partitioning element to obtain movement and changing combinations of opening the different spaces.
There is no definition of doors from fixed partitioning elements, and there is no
unambiguous definition of opens. The partitioning elements move in space while exposing and concealing various spaces, blurring the lines between the public space, offices and balcony.
The narrow-shaped space had been designed with a main public space that serves as the spine of the office and includes a seating area, kitchenette and a central meeting desk. This spine floats in the middle of the space without reaching the glass panels that surrounds it.
The glass panels enable dynamic transparency and intensify the motion experience that extend into another dimension through the glass. The lighting an exposure, behind-the -stripped-glass motions, the furniture placements and lighting fixture correlate with the partitioning geometry, but are being redefined
throughout the day by the natural light and movement of people in the space.